Thursday, August 18, 2005

Comparative Law and Religion Dominates This Week's New Scholarship

A number of interesting new law review articles focusing on law and religion around the world are reported this week by SmartCILP:

Shima Baradaran-Robison, Brett G. Scharffs and Elizabeth A. Sewell, Religious Monopolies and the Commodification of Religion, 32 Pepperdine Law Rev. 885-943 (2005).

Leigh Hunt Greenhaw & Michael H. Koby, Constitutional Conversations and New Religious Movements: A Comparative Case Study, 38 Vanderbilt Jour. Transnat'l Law 615-678 (2005).

Achim Seifert, Respectful Religious Pluralism In the Workplace. (Reviewing Douglas A. Hicks, Religion and the Workplace: Pluralism, Spirituality, Leadership.) 25 Comparative Labor Law & Pol'y J. 463-475 (2004).

Ann Black, Survival or Extinction? Animistic Dispute Resolution in the Sultanate of Brunei, 13 Willamette Jour. Int'l Law & Dispute Resolution 1-25 (2005).

Natan Lerner, How Wide the Margin of Appreciation? The Turkish Headscarf Case, the Strasbourg Court, and Secularist Tolerance, 13 Willamette Jour. Int'l Law & Dispute Resolution 65-85 (2005).

Peter Cumper, Book Review. (Reviewing Regulating Religion--Case Studies from Around the Globe, edited by James T. Richardson.) 13 Willamette Jour. Int'l Law & Dispute Resolution 87-108 (2005).

Vanessa Von Struensee, Stoning, Shari'a, and Human Rights Law in Nigeria, 11 William & Mary Jour. of Women & Law 405-425 (2005).